Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King

About Me

This site serves both as an intro to me as well as a clearinghouse for all things related to Jerry Nolan. Perhaps I should have two sites but that will just have to wait.

Here's the non-ironic skinny: I'm a television producer with a music background. Confused? I was a professional musician in the 1980's recording and performing under the name Lewis King with the Rockats, Beat Rodeo, Elliott Murphy & House of Usher (George Usher), with members of the Modern Lovers, Violent Femmes, Holly and the Italians and B-52s as well as producers Richard Gottherer, Mike Thorne & Scott Litt. In 1992, I returned to my given name and transitioned to the Television & Video industry, joining Seattle's PBS affiliate KCTS, where I helped create numerous award winning programs and documentaries. The one I really wanted to make, DIY didn't happen, but I got a little bit of press out of it, and met Jeff Feurezeig, who has a wonderful doc out called THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON, which you NEED to see. Currently, I am a producer at the Seattle Channel (www.seattlechannel.org) helping create local music, arts and public affairs programming. I co-produce a show called KEXP Live At The Triple Door. I sit on the Board of Governors for the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy (The Grammies). I am also conducting interviews and doing research for what I hope will be a book on former New York Doll & Heartbreaker's drummer Jerry Nolan.

Did you know him? Drop me a line.

Click the photo below to read the 1991 Village Voice article "My Life As A Doll".

My Interests

Money, clothes, rock 'n' roll and getting...

I'd like to meet:

People who knew Jerry Nolan

Music:

I played in strip joints and with The Peeple, Otis Day, Cradle with Suzi Quatro, Kicks with Billy Squier, Shaker, the Dynamic Duo, Queen Elizabeth with Wayne County, the New York Dolls, the Heartbreakers, the Idols, Levi & The Rockats, The Rockats, The London Cowboys, Johnny Thunders, The Ugly Americans, Buddy Bowser and The Jerry Nolan Band. I love Gene Krupa, Eddie Cochran, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and the first Rock 'n' Roll from the 50's.

Movies:

The Warriors

Television:

Old movies but sometimes I just stare at the side of it

Books:

Bios on old movie stars and Iceburg Slim

Heroes:

Gene Krupa
NEW YORK DOLLS '73

My Blog

The City That Never Sleeps

What do the following names have in common? David Johansen Punk Magazine Private Stock Records Gene O'Brien Terry Ork Andrew Oldham Nancy Spungen Jerry Nolan Legs McNeil Sable Starr Seymour Stein Ric...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:50:00 PST

The Trudge

The Trudge. It sounds like a Led Zeppeling song but its really my description of my process. My ever-evolving process. Part 1: Get interviews transcribed. Mostly I have someo...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:12:00 PST

Screed of the Bad Blogger

OK, so a blogger is supposed to write online often. 'Cept whenever I think of something to write I stop myself and say, "Don't waste your time writing on your blog. You should be working on your...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:15:00 PST

Not what you might be expecting

So today is the 15th anniversary of Jerry's death. You might expect me to write something noting it but I'd prefer to focus on his life. How about 1975? 1975 is usually thought of as...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:34:00 PST

The Grinch speaks

Been in LA visting my family which, inspite of all the dread that came before, turned out to be quite a nice visit. The Mrs. stayed here in Seattle (Kirkland) so it was just me and der kind...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:37:00 PST

Birthday Update

As I'm Jewish I will of course lead off with the bad news:Still no response from Michael Sticca, Marky Ramone, Todd Rundgren, Peter Criss, Bette Midler..and Buddy Bowzer... Total turndown from Sylvain...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:12:00 PST

The Rashomon Effect

For those not familiar with this term I offer you the Wikipedia description: The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event ar...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:03:00 PST

Call me Dr. No

Another, more interesting, and less terse, no: Hello Curt,You are persistent. I hadn't replied because I was busy and the idea oftaking time to say things about Nolan was such a stretch, I just movedo...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:23:00 PST

Progress and sidebars

Subject 1: Got some more interviews transcribed. Just about all of the years 79-80 are ready to be put together. Don't have Levi Dexter yet but he did agree to answer my questions...and I ...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:53:00 PST

Unexpected Gains

Often when I interview people I want to engage in a full exchange like it was an actual conversation. I limit it though because I need to let them talk. I try to get them to reveal mo...
Posted by Jerry Nolan by Curt Weiss/Lewis King on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:20:00 PST